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Clarissa Rankin, a professional truck driver and a TikToker, is moving past gender stereotypes while raking in a substantial six-figure salary each year.  What Happened: Rankin, a resident of Charlotte, North Carolina, posts videos on TikTok that give a glimpse into her daily life on the road. She...

Several trucking and logistics companies are collectively owed hundreds of thousands of dollars after a 101-year-old specialty glass fabricator and its subsidiaries ceased operations and filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in mid-July. The managing entity, Consolidated Glass Holdings Inc., lists the assets...

The gains Netradyne has made in improving driver safety helped the San Diego-headquartered company last week close on $150 million in Series C funding.  The latest funding round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from M12 and Point72 Ventures and resulted in an estimated $1...

Heat and humidity are building up across several areas of the country, leading to good odds of truckers running into showers and thunderstorms. Storms could become particularly strong to severe in some places the next couple of days. Tuesday Severe storms will be scattered across two pockets of...

It seems the growing popularity of cannabis in the U.S. represents a complex issue for the trucking industry. With trucking being federally regulated, cannabis remains prohibited under federal workplace drug testing programs for the over 3.5 million drivers who haul our shipments back and forth...

A brutal heat wave that began over the weekend will spread across more Western states all week long. Drivers should do everything they can to beat the heat for the sake of their health, as well as their trucks. Temperatures in the 90s and 100s were common Saturday and Sunday in parts of the Desert...

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This week's DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 20 (Shippers) Last week's DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 25 (Shippers) Three-month DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index Outlook: 55 (Carriers) The DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index uses the analytics and data contained in FreightWaves...

After a year of falling rates and closing companies, the trucking market seems to be stabilizing. This is good news for carriers who cannot afford another hit, but 2020 is not expected to bring surging rates. Carriers will have to think strategically to take advantage of moderate rate increases...

On today's episode, Dooner and Chad are talking about a murder suspect caught with an in-cab camera, avocado truck hijackings, trucker insurance fraud, they continue the debate from FreightWaves radio on whether Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) drivers are paid too much, plus a deep dive on Flexport's foray...

Chris Spear, president and CEO of the American Trucking Associations (ATA), hopes to see reforms in trucker safety involving hours of service (HOS), the adoption of new technologies, as well as a crackdown on opioid use. Spear and ATA have applauded the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration...

Legislation that would increase the minimum insurance liability coverage required for interstate trucking from $750,000 to almost $5 million would put more small owner-operators out of business, independent operators claim. In a July 29 letter warning against the proposal, which was introduced in...

New York based Transfix has been soliciting investors for a $60-100M Series D venture-round at an $800 million valuation. If the company is successful in closing the round, it will be a signficant outlier in terms of revenue multiples put on digital brokerages in the space. The company has been...